Is the Government Tampering With Witnesses in No-Fly Trial? | Lowering the Bar

The trial, going on right now in federal court in San Francisco, involves claims by a former Stanford Ph.D. student that she was not allowed to fly in 2005 (except to go home to Malaysia) for reasons that the government won’t explain.

According to this NYT graphic (click for more detail), 99% of the names that are “nominated” end up on the master watch list. … In other words, the “Terrorist Screening Center” isn’t doing any “screening.”

one of the plaintiff’s witnesses—one of her daughters, who is an American citizen—had not been able to travel to the U.S. to testify because (wait for it) she had been put on the no-fly list

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